[Colonel Kangaroo]

It's a dereliction of duty with respect to our national security not to do everything possible to exploit all domestic oil reserves.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

The GAO describes itself as the

"Investigative arm of Congress charged with examining matters relating to the receipt and payment of public funds."

[JRandomFreeper]

Who knows what is under the vast Russian east? They may have more than us.

I guess peak oil is now officially dead.

/johnny

[BuffaloJack]

> dereliction of duty
Sounds like dereliction of duty is right up Obama’s alley.
Present.

[Noob1999]

Is this part of the federal land that Clinton set aside when he banned mining for low sulpher coal and oil in Utah, etc. (Escanante???) back in the late nineties

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Related

[llandres]

Think what impact getting truths such as this out to the public would make in the campaign and election! Just telling the masses powerful facts that show BHO’s statements to be blatant lies. I know Newt would’ve had the guts to do so in debate, but at least have the campaign machine of whomever our nominee is use this in national ads. BHO’s opposition can beat him if they’re even HALF-WAY smart about it.

The public has a right to be told the truth, and often, without having to search for it as we here do or be wonks as we here are.

This natural resource/government land issue alone is huge, and there are countless others as well. It’s up to our side to get them out to people.

[clearcarbon]

The obamanation is a champion of mediocrity and that towering “can’t do” resolution.

[cookcounty]

"That small part is known as the Green River Formation, the world's largest oil shale deposit, and is located in a largely vacant region of mostly federal land on the western edge of the Rocky Mountains that includes portions of Wyoming, Utah and Colorado."

And vacant it is. Almost nobody lives there because nobody lives there unless they have to.

[Michael Barnes]

So why are we keeping it locked up on federal lands?

Control.

Can you possibly imagine the explosion of personal liberty, entrepreneurship and an economy where we could literally dig ourselves out from underneath the mountain of debt congress and the white house created? We wouldn't need government and that is the rub for DC.

[MrB]

Anyone else had the thought that perhaps these natural resources were known a long time ago, and the powers that be have mortgaged them as collateral on the huge amount of debt that they’ve incurred?

[raptor22]

Energy independence ping

[raptor22]

Energy independence ping

[SJackson]

Needless to say the authors of the report need to be disciplined, it doesn't fit with the Obama worldview.

The silver lining, as one who is concerned about the burdens we're putting on our children and grandchildren, it stays in the ground beyond Obama. If they're wise, they'll have assets to work with, other than the income of their children and grandchildren.